Ecotourism

Kalahari Bushmen telling stories while they build a fire using the local grass and sticks. The Bushmen have relied on stories as the way to transfer their extensive and vital knowledge of their environment for tens of thousands of years, almost unchanged. Only the modern garb on the youngest bushman gives away the century.

Men unloading Rice Sacks by hand from a freighter in Yangon Loading Docks, and dropping a stick to hel pthe count. Longshoreman make about five dollars per day doing this heavy labor in Myanmar, Burma, Southeast Asia

Kitchen in Traditional Shan house with wood fire and hanging chickens in Shan village near Kalaw, Shan State near Heho, Myanmar, Burma, Southeast Asia. The Shan family who own and live in the house had never had Westerners as guests before but welcomed us in as we walked by and treated us with great respect and hospitality.

School Children returning home from elementary school in a dugout canoe serving as their neighborhood bus showing their houses on stilts in a tiny village in the Inle Lake Area, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma), Southeast Asia

These Shan fisherman are famous for their one-legged rowing technique which allows them to use both hands for their fishing nets while still using an oar with one leg to propel their boats forward. Inle Lake, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma), Southeast Asia

Member of the ruling military offers gold as gilding, as traditional for the Buddhist relition, to the replacement Mahamuni Buddha north of Mrauk U, Rakhine Division, Arakhan Kingdom, Myanmar (Burma), Southeast Asia

Outer Crypt at Koe Thaung Temple showing some of the many thousands of Buddha carvings in the wall and some of the many Buddha statues sunlight near Mrauk U, Rakhine Division, Arakhan Kingdom, Myanmar (Burma), Southeast Asia

Chin children studying on their holiday at their local school, built by eco-tourist donations. Their teacher, a university graduate who could not find a job in the city teaches the one-room school for $10/month. The Chin are one of the oppressed minorities in Burma. Chin Villages near Mrauk U, Rakhine State, (Arakhan Kingdom), Myanmar, Burma, Southeast Asia